Abstract
The events shadowing the end of 1937 – the cabinet crisis and its resolution, the electoral campaign and the general elections of 20 December 1937 – are circumscribed to general social-political evolution of the 30’s. The relations of king Carol II with the political parties and the personalities, the complex situations inside the parties, the balance between the democratic and the authoritarian-totalitarian forces, all these are significantly relevant aspects for determining the causes and the premises of the crisis of the Romanian parliamentarianism, which became very visible towards the end of 1937 and the beginning of 1938. An objective analysis of the November-December 1937 moment requires a succinct review of the main political forces that were decisively involved, first in solving the cabinet crisis and then in the electoral campaign.